Rolled Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 3 Cups Flour (sifted)
• 2 Cups Granulated Sugar
• 1 Cup Butter (soften)
• 2 Eggs
• 1 TBSP Baking Powder
• 2 TBSP Milk

Instructions

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Slowly add remaining ingredients. Chill overnight.

Lightly flour surface and cookie cutter(s). Cut a section of refrigerated dough. Refrigerate remaining dough. Roll dough out and cookie press  accordingly. Repeat.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Bake cookies for approximately 10 minutes.

Tips:

• As photographed, no icing sugar cookies but adorable trick is to gel food dye a portion of your dough before overnight refrigeration. Roll out sugar dough with gel food dye as you normally would. Roll out plain dough as usual. Cookie cut center and fill with precut gel food dye dough.
• Baking time may vary depending on desired shape, size and thickness.
• Cookie cut dough on parchment paper chilled overnight makes baking easy the next day.
• Dough may last up to 3 months in the freezer.
• Experiment with the cookie cutters by using a smaller design in a larger one.
• Gel Food Color Dyes work best.
• Icing with Buttercream or Royal.
• Keep unused dough refrigerated.
• I prefer Ann Clark cookie cutters.
• I prefer serving a mixture of icing cookies and others just sprinkled with sugar decorative toppings.
• I prefer to leave the salted butter out overnight.
• I prefer to refrigerate cookie cut dough on a bake sheet overnight.
• I prefer to wrap dough in wax paper then saran wrap overnight.
• KitchenAid mixer with the flat beater attachment works well.
• Personally find the dough sticks easily to plastic cookie cutters compared to metal ones.
• Refrigerate overnight or a few hours after rolling and cutting dough before baking.
• Royal Icing can last up to 14 days in the refrigerator.
• Uniced sugar cookies last for 14 days in a sealed container at room temperature.
• Uniced sugar cookies last for 30 days in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
• You may use Gel Food Color Dyes in your batter. Makes select cookies festive without the icing on stocking, trees, etc.